Palanpur

An ambitious and systematic attempt to put to the test theories of underdevelopment and of the motives and behaviour of poor farmers in an Indian village.

“"The three Palanpur volumes are a monument to serious social science. I don't know of anything like them." -- Robert Solow, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics 1987”

The three Palanpur volumes are a monument to serious social science. I don't know of anything like them. Robert Solow, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics 1987
Represents an important contribution to Indian agricultural economics and development theory. Population and Development Review

Christopher Bliss, Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Professor Christopher Bliss is Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His research interests are in economic theory and economic policy, international economics, and development economics.

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is IG Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He is Director of the India Observatory, Chairman of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Chairman of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and President-elect of the Royal Economic Society (2018-2019). He has also been a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords since 2007.

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